Bodo Brückner, Eva-Maria Gottmann and Christian Tidona lead a multidisciplinary team with entrepreneurial and self-employment background. Since 2009 they are teaching life science Master students (and since last year also PhDs) at Heidelberg University how to develop and present a business idea - the program is called "Biotech Entrepreneurship Training Program" (BETP). In 2013 BioMed X Innovation Center, BioRN Cluster Management and Heidelberg University established the lectures series "Biotech Entrepreneurship and Leadership Lectures" (BELL) where successful entrepreneurs and business leaders share their experiences with students and young professionals. As the number of participants is increasing, the team decided to create this website in order to bundle their entrepreneurship activities at www.biotech-entrepreneurship.com.

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Biotech
Entrepreneurship
Training Program
3 teachers
8 courses
135 participants
from 10 different
organizations
Biotech
Entrepreneurship
and Leadership
Lectures
5 editions
23 speakers
Biotech
Entrepreneurship
Online Content
Blog
190 Followers on
Twitter
284 Likes on
Facebook
Linkedin Group

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4.  October 12: Christian Piepenbrock, serial entrepreneur
 October 26: Markus Wilhelms, usMIMA, Barcelona
 November 09: Hong Cheng, Sanofi
 November 23: Christian Tidona, BioMed X / BioRN Network
 December 07: Thomas Schulz, Société Coopérative Healthbank, Genève
 January 11: Christoph Zrenner, MedTech Accelerator Tübingen
 January 25: Adrian Carter, Boehringer Ingelheim
 January 27: Colin Bennet, Flames A Mile High
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5. Alexander Würfel, AbbVie
Andrea Pfundmeier, Boxcryptor / Secomba
GmbH (Winner of the German Founder Price
2014)
Christian Tidona, BioMed X Innovation Center /
BioRN Network
Claus Kremoser, Phenex Pharmaceuticals
Colin Bennett, Flames a Mile High
Friedrich Richter, AbbVie
Georg Matheis, Novalung GmbH
Gitte Neubauer, Cellzome
Ingmar Hoerr, Curevac
Jürgen Bauer, EMBLEM Technology Transfer
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Matthias Klaften, amcure GmbH
Marius Rosenberg, Medical Adhesive
Revolution (MAR) GmbH
Patrick Most, uniQure Germany/InoCard
Peter Johann, NGN Capital
Ralf Eckert, Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH
Roel Bulthuis, Merck Serono Ventures
Stefan Duhr, Nanotemper (Winner of the
German Founder Price 2014)
Thomas Höger, Apogenix GmbH
Vikas Shah, Swiscot Group (Managing
Director), Thought Strategy (Founder)
Volker Stadler, PEPperPRINT

7. Dr. Christian Tidona
@ChristianTidona
Dr. Bodo Brückner
@BodoBrueckner
Eva-Maria Gottmann
@Evsche
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9. • Compact course for students, PhDs, and postdocs in
Life Sciences & Health Technology at Heidelberg
University
• 2 ECTS for master students
• Started in 2009
• Participants from:
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10. What are our goals?
• Generation of a basic understanding of intellectual
property, innovation, and economic value creation
from academic research results
• Development of a viable and compelling business
idea
• Presentation of the business idea in front of a critical
audience
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11. How does it work?
• Basics are provided in three lectures
• Participants are grouped in “founder teams”
to jointly work on business ideas based on
current research articles or own ideas
• Teams present their business ideas
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12. Summer semester 2014:
12 participants
Feedback survey:
7 participants (58%)
Winter semester 2013/14:
37 participants
Feedback survey:
20 participants (55%)
Winter semester 2014/15:
43 participants
Feedback survey:
13 participants (30%)
Summer semester 2015:
13 participants
Feedback survey:
13 participants (100%)
Winter semester 2015/16:
33 participants
Feedback survey:
16 participants (48%)

13. • BETP fills a gap in the curriculum on
entrepreneurship
• BETP also improves presentations skills
• Everyone would recommend it to his peers
• Peers play an important role as reason to
apply

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17. “Very useful intro to
entrepreneurship.”
“Gives a new
perspective.”
“It is a great chance to learn something
that I was never told at school/university
from people who are credible.”
“Good chance to practice team
work with people who you
didn't know before.”
“It was great
fun.”

19. • to get an idea about entrepreneurship in general
since it is not part of the master program
• to better understand how biotech inventions can
be developed into marketable products
• curiosity
• feeling there was a lack of economical context in
my university program
• wondering how you can start a company
• “real life” impression
• only seminar available on entrepreneurship at
Heidelberg University

21. • “Highly skilled instructors; feedback on the
final presentations was very useful.”
• pitching with a team
• instructions for how to make business plan
• working out the business idea out of research
results

22. • the presentations and team work
• elaborated feedback and suggestions
• “Good atmosphere; challenging team; very
new kind of problem to solve; work together
with people of different backgrounds”
• additional material on the webpage

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Next BETP course
starts on April 27!
05:00 – 07:00 p.m.
Further information:
www.biotech-entrepreneurship.com

24. BioRN Cluster Management GmbH
Im Neuenheimer Feld 582
69120 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 4305 111
Email: info@BioRN.org
Web: www.BioRN.org
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